{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{speciesbox |name = |image = |image_caption = |status_system = DECF |status = P3 |genus = Bossiaea |species = eremaea |authority = J.H.Ross<ref name=APC>{{cite web|title=''Bossiaea eremaea''|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/162180|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> |synonyms = }}
'''''Bossiaea eremaea''''' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an openly-branched, spreading, more or less leafless shrub with deep yellow and purplish flowers.
==Description== ''Bossiaea eremaea'' is an openly-branched, spreading shrub that typically grows up to {{cvt|1.2|m}} high and {{cvt|1.5|m}} wide with young branchlets that or slightly flattened to oval in cross-section. The leaves, when present, are oval, elliptic or oblong, {{cvt|2.2–6|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.7–3.5|mm}} wide, but usually quickly fall off. The flowers are arranged singly or in small groups, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|1–5|mm}} long with overlapping, broadly egg-shaped bracts up to {{cvt|1.0|mm}} long. The sepals are joined at the base forming a tube {{cvt|2–4|mm}} long, with five pinkish-red lobes, the two upper lobes {{cvt|0.9–1.9|mm}} long and the three lower lobes {{cvt|0.8–1.2|mm}} long, with egg-shaped bracteoles {{cvt|1.1–1.5|mm}} long on the pedicel. The standard petal is deep yellow with a purplish-brown base and {{cvt|6.8–10.1|mm}} long, the wings pinkish-red with a yellow tip and {{cvt|6.1–8.5|mm}} long, the keel purplish-red and {{cvt|5.8–8.1|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is a pod {{cvt|16–21|mm}} long.<ref name=FloraBase>{{FloraBase|name=''Bossiaea eremaea''|id=30236}}</ref><ref name="Muelleria">{{cite journal |last1=Ross |first1=James H. |title=A conspectus of the Western Australian ''Bossiaea'' species (Bossiaeeae: Fabaceae) |journal=Muelleria |date=2006 |volume=23 |pages=104–108 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/278250#page/106/mode/1up |access-date=26 July 2021}}</ref>
==Taxonomy and naming== ''Bossiaea eremaea'' was first formally described in 2006 by James Henderson Ross in the journal ''Muelleria'' from specimens he collected east of Mount Magnet in 1998.<ref name="Muelleria" /><ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Bossiaea eremaea''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/608740 |publisher=APNI|access-date=26 July 2021}}</ref> The specific epithet (''eremaea'') means "desert", referring to the deep sand in which this species grows.<ref name="Muelleria" />
==Distribution and habitat== This bossiaea grows in deep sand in woodland from near Sandstone to near Laverton in the Great Victoria Desert and Murchison biogeographic regions of Western Australia.<ref name="FloraBase" /><ref name="Muelleria" />
==Conservation status== ''Bossiaea eremaea'' is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife<ref name="FloraBase" /> meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.<ref name=codes>{{cite web|title=Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna|url=https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/plants-animals/threatened-species/Listings/Conservation%20code%20definitions.pdf|publisher=Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife|accessdate=26 July 2021}}</ref>
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eremaea Category:Eudicots of Western Australia Category:Plants described in 2006